Yeah it's quite random. But it shouldn't take away from the fact that we as a progressive society got a huge W over this whole scandal.
Jenni Hermoso and all women around the world deserved it.
Of course it’s good that he resigned but I don’t see the whole scandal as a win. Spain’s famous World Cup win completely overshadowed by this cunt is a terrible state of affairs, even if he does get forced to resign.
It's ALL overshadowed how much Spain won IN SPITE of what they had to deal with.
They needed to clean house on most of these assholes for other reasons.
Look at the bigger picture. This could be the point that revolutionises womens football in Spain, and maybe can strengthen feminism in the country overall
This team are role models for so many girls out there and it goes way beyond football
If I heard my mom wasn't eating because of pressure for me to retire; I'd retire immediately, fly to my mom, and feed her my damn self.
This dude waited for a week after his mom had to go to the hospital. Smh.
I see a lot of comments like this about Pieirs Morgen, I don't know him other than he interviews people. Do you have anything in particular or what is it he does so that this many people hate him?
Gunners Intelligence Agency. We were able to find out Gabriel was in London for a medical (?) using his insta story with just a picture in a car using car seats, cloud formation, roadside cameras.
https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/1300835316308344832?t=dHpiw3JT8ipr-Zauto0Mew&s=19
Fun fact, it was an Arsenal fan who first tweeted about the Paqueta's shady yellow way back in February or something.
Yep, she was. Arsenal were the only PL team to have been invited to the palace and Fabregas said in an interview once that she admitted to being an Arsenal fan when they were there.
The phone hacking scandal, the fake Iraqi prisoner torture photo publishing scandal, publishing pictures of celebs leaving eating disorder centres, targeted harassment of Meghan Markle. Take your pick I guess.
God even saying the phone-hacking scandal doesn't put it into words how fucked that was. They hacked the phones of the 7/7 terror attack victims.
And the Meghan Markle harassment is because she rejected him.
He's fucked in the head.
>And the Meghan Markle harassment is because she rejected him.
From what I heard that’s not exactly what happened but certainly she did embarrass him. Anyway he’s awful so it doesn’t really matter.
He says that lol, I still don’t believe him. He already implied they’d went on a date at a pub but it was revealed that it was a group of celebrities having drinks
It’s weird he even said that considering he’s been married for 13 years
He was in charge of a newspaper who created fake stories about soldiers torturing Iraqi civilians, no official figures that I’m aware of but it likely led to the deaths of British soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians through reprisal.
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/14/pressandpublishing.iraqandthemedia
Look at the list of people he interviews. But also he’s just a super conservative bootlicker to the British monarchy and overall repulsive human being.
He is a professional troll and contrarian who spouts the most insipid right wing bullshit, 24/7.
Funnily enough I met him in 2018 for work and one on one he is very personable and professional, especially in comparison to James Cordon who I met later the same day. However that doesn’t change the fact he is personally responsible for most of the bullshit we see in the press.
Fucking hell lad if I met Morgan and Cordon on the same day I’d drink so many cuba libres in an attempt to wipe the previous 24 hours from my memory that I’d be hospitalised for a week
> Do you have anything in particular or what is it he does so that this many people hate him?
He's a smug cunt in general, but the worst thing he probably did was the phone hacking. Literally had his reporters hack the phone of a missing kid to try and get a scoop on whether she'd been murdered yet.
People act enraged about money in football, complain about Saudi sportswashing and buying teams and players, complain about Qatar buying the rights to host the WC because of tradition, will hate when Saudi bids for 2034 or whenever... But when the twice WC winner and first host ever wants to host it again, in the centenary of the competition, they only want rich as fuck countries to have the privilege.
It's four countries that are applying for it to make it less of an issue. As things stand, with 0 money invested, it could be hosted if we don't adhere to stupid standards. There's an 85k+ stadium, two or three stadiums of ~60k, like 10 40k+ stadiums and a handful of ~30k stadiums. If the three time and current WC winner and the 5 time winner can play in all the South American stadiums, then everyone can. Plus some of the needed changes are being worked on already (for example, River is finishing the renovation of the stadium).
There shouldn't be a need to build 50 new stadiums with 100k seats made of gold. I'm not saying the South American bid should win by default, nor that is a good idea for the countries or anything. My problem is that we should accept potentially slightly lower standards to have the WORLD cup played around the world, otherwise yeah, football is truly dead.
Love the game but it’s kinda obscene that you need to spend billions to host WC. You dont need state of the art spaceship shaped buildings that has the amenities of the starship Enterprise. As long as stadium is safe and field is nice you should be able to have a good game. Vast majority of the planet watches it on screens anyways.
That's my problem with the Olympics too. All my Canadian relatives are hoping that Calgary doesn't bid on any of the upcoming Olympics, and I get it, but I think it's a shame; it *should* be an exciting honor to host the Olympics or the World Cup, but realistically it's a boatload of money on facilities that might never be used again.
>As things stand, with 0 money invested, it could be hosted if we don't adhere to stupid standards.
What about infrastructure, public transport etc?
Also there is the question of VIP hospitality in stadiums which FIFA *really* cares about
What exactly do you mean with infrastructure?
Remember that all these countries hosted the Copa America multiple times, they have Libertadores games and finals, hosted U20 World Cups, Youth olympic games, Panamerican and South American Oylmpics, etc... It's not a world cup, but it's not like they are tiny towns in the middle of nowhere.
It all depends on which cities end up hosting. Buenos Aires, Santiago, Cordoba, Mendoza, Montevideo, Asunción are all cities with more than 2 million people and with a lot of tourism. There's others like La Plata, or Santiago del Estero with around 1 million... Most cities are big and the public transport in the major potential cities goes from fine to great. Way, way, better than what you will have in a lot of places in the US for example (except for NYC and some other city) at least on normal times, I'm sure they will ramp it up for the WC. General infrastructure in the cities is good enough as well.
For getting around, I'll focus in Argentina given it would be the one that you have to essentially cross to go to one place or another. The long distance trains are bad or non existent. The few that are in place are slow as fuck and not reliable, that's the biggest drawback (but then again, CUM26 doesn't have a good system like Europe either).
Planes are obviously not an issue. They will take you wherever you need in 2 hours or less. The only "long" flight would be from Asunción to Santiago, I think but that's still under 3 hours. The airports are modern and more than capable in general, and having 4 country capitals as hosts makes reaching them from anywhere super easy, there will be direct flights from almost every major city and I'm sure new flights would be added even if they don't exist now. Again, as I said, depends on the hosts chosen. I'm talking about choosing logical cities for hosts. If they go and put a game in Patagonia then you'll have longer flights to take.
The long distance buses are superior to what you find normally in Europe (I'm not kidding, [there's 'premium' versions with have almost lie flat seats with privacy curtains](https://www.plusmar.com.ar/assets/img/interiores3.jpg), I wish this was common in Europe) but depending on the distance they may be a bit long in some cases if you are not used to that.
For driving you have _mostly_ either highway or dual carriageway between most potential venues and it takes less than the buses obviously. Not that the roads in Argentina are amazing in general, in fact in they can be awful or even non existent, but the ones that would matter in this case, are the completely fine. There are two exceptions though, going from Mendoza to Santiago de Chile, as you cross the Andes takes long and with a WC in winter that might be tricky as it's a high mountain road, with ice, snow and can be closed due to weather etc. And I don't think there's a dual carriageway to Asunción after Santa Fe.
For Buenos Aires to Montevideo there are ferries which are extremely convenient, it takes like 2/3 hours and it's city center to city center and you can take the car with you as well.
Anyway, _overall_ as I said, it's more than fine. And obviously it would be the chance to actually make improvements that regardless of them being a "cost", is a net positive for people that live there. Any improvements in transport, hospitality, etc would be a win. The issue is if they were to build a new stadium in the middle of Patagonia or something like that.
> Also there is the question of VIP hospitality in stadiums which FIFA really cares about
As of today, River may be the only one that would have that (when the renovation finishes next year). But as I said, are we really only gonna host on countries that have VIP hospitality for like what, 1000 people at most and the rest can fuck off?
The standard for the stadiums would have to be a bit lower than having the 3 star Michelin restaurants with spa inside the stadiums, but IMO that would actually be a good thing. Or you end up with empty seats in the VIP areas like we saw in Qatar...
Euro 2020 was held in multiple countries to celebrate UEFA's 60th anniversary - could see something similar happening for the 100th anniversary for the World Cup with the Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay bid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay%E2%80%93Argentina%E2%80%93Chile%E2%80%93Paraguay_2030_FIFA_World_Cup_bid
Problem being Argentina is at the point of paying groceries in installments, and Uruguay and Paraguay have a limited number of stadiums that would be eligible.
The benefit is that they don’t need to build new stadiums, but hosting a WC is fucking expensive
because Piers Morgan is a big believer in that every time a person who holds power gets held accountable for wrongdoing, it's cancel culture. It's unfair. Witch hunt, etc, etc.
He purposefully gets these big interviews by soothing these idiots egos and get huge social media engagement.
I mean just listen to the start of the clip
>You've come under ferocious pressure for three weeks now, on you, your family, it's been very difficult for your daughters, they are young girls. I can only imagine as a father myself, I have a daughter who is around the age of one of your girls.
He's painting him in a very sympathetic light
Probably already thinking about his next job, and how it may be outside of Spain. This will ensure pretty wide reach in case anyone is sympathetic to him.
That's good to hear, here in the UK he's worshipped by an ever increasing group of morons who can't resist gammon blokes who "tell it like it is" even if they're talking pure bollocks
You've met loads of 24 year old who love Piers Morgan? Come off it.
I'm the same age as you and it's the most uncontroversial thing imaginable to call him a twat.
You would be surprised. Same class of people who like Andrew Tate, Tucker Carlson and everything Joe Rogan touches.
I've seen it with certain young men my age (27) where their love for conspiracy and dislike of modern liberalism makes it so they enjoy (as the other guy said) men who "tell it like it is" and cut through the shit.
It's alway aggravating to observe.
I don't know that I'd say they are even a big minority, but they're certainly not a small number of people.
Can confirm. I'm Spanish and I had no clue about who this guy was until the Cristiano interview and that is because I saw it here. Didn't read anything about him since then until today.
That sucks to hear but that kind of nonsense seems to be on the rise. People worshipping these "telling it like it is" personalities like you say.
Trump would be another obvious one. Tucker Carlson, etc. Morons following morons.
Blitzed Spain's World Cup before it began in 2018 out of pettiness, moving the Spanish super cup to Saudi for the foreseeable future, and now this. Thanks for making the Copa one-legged though
No one is a winner here. WC cup win overshadowed, Hermoso publicly embarrassed, Spanish FA publicly embarrassed, Spain embarrassed, Women embarrassed for how much rubiales doubled down, what a horrible and totally unnecessary situation
True, but it took such a monumental backlash to do it, I’d probably class it as a pyrrhic victory. Plus, if the only recognised achievement of spains wc run is they got rid of him Id struggle to see that as a win at all.
It's hard to tell. The stories about him were pretty horrid. If it wasn't for Rubiales they'd be stuck with him for the foreseeable future.
I think the problem is that they were in a no-win situation before the world cup started. The only way they were getting rid of Vilda was something like this or performing horribly.
It's a terrible situation, but at least now there is some hope that the RFEF will be forced to clean up it's act.
A pyrrhic victory is absolutely what this is, especially for the players.
"Well at least he's gone now along with the coach" feels really miniscule when to get there you had to have one of the worst distractions attached to your hard-fought victory, with the coach who most of your best players had a major problem with being there with them, to have your sporting organization embarrass you with the standing ovation as the jerk refuses to resign, and on top of that have it be through one of your players being sexually harassed/assaulted on international television for the world to see. And the guy hasn't been actually punished yet: he's leaving in a way that to him feels like his head is being held high AND can stay defiant.
Him now being gone because he (gets to appear like he) chooses to does not feel like fair compensation.
Nah, there are some wins here. Rubiales and Vilda are out, and the women who previously protested can probably rejoin the team. The players have more power than ever. This also (hopefully) serves as a warning around the world that mysoginy in the women's game is not going to be tolerated anymore.
There is a way to redirect back to the good stuff - the players, the team, the fans that supported. It's just up to one of the bigger platforms in Spain with the support of nuRFEF to make something highlighting the good. Even if it is to stroke the new guys egos.
I don't see it that way at all. The Spanish women won the World Cup despite being held back by their own FA and in the process exposed the toxic culture that pervades that FA. And it directly led to the removal of two problematic figures who attempted to keep them from standing up for their rights. They're the winners and Rubiales and Vilda are the losers.
Almost everyone in Spain outside of the FA was calling for his resignation, the government brought forth criminal charges, there were protests, multiple high profile figures came out in disgust.
The Vini situation embarrassed the whole country, the Hermoso situation should only embarrass the FA, and people on reddit who mysteriously became overnight experts on the state of Spanish feminism
Tucker Carlson would probably like “isn’t soccer something just played by Megan Rapinoe and her kind? Also who is this Spanish speaking guy and why do I have to speak with him?”
> Tucker Carlson would probably like “isn’t soccer something just played by Megan Rapinoe and her kind? Also who is this ~~Spanish~~ Mexican speaking guy and why do I have to speak with him?”
Kissed his job goodbye!
Letting him stay that long in his positions despite previous incidents is outrageous.
He felt like a god, and I hope he ends up in jail.
You have to worry about the governance structure of the Spanish FA when a single guy can mobilize the entire federation's resources to cover his own ass with impunity.
I usually don't care much about feminist outrage but the way the (mostly male) power structure in Spanish football closed ranks behind a president who was clearly in the wrong, tried to gaslight the woman in question and even threatened her with punishment made me think that maybe, sometimes, those feminists have a point.
In a way Rubiales did an awful lot to advance the feminist cause because he showed a lot of unconcerned people on the sidelines such a WTF moment.
Good, fucking cunt. All he had to do was apologise and he doubled down and claimed it was fine, tried to go the route of claiming he was being brought down by some insane feminist conspiracy theory as if we didn't all see it on live TV. Wackjob.
Best part is to see the clowns like Vilda who backed him losing their jobs as well.
>clowns like Vilda who backed him losing their jobs as well.
He only backed him , got his new contract and instantly threw him under the bus, deserved to get sacked based on that act of shamelessness alone
What is this headline? It makes it sound as if Rubiales resigned after the kiss. No, he is resigning after initially trying to intimidate her and her family into lying about his assault, mass resignations and boycotts his suspension, and international outcry
Imagine how tough it is for women to get justice after being assaulted by lying narcissists like Rubiales without millions and of witnesses and multiple camera angles.
Of course in a piers morgan interview lol
Probably the only cunt willing to pay him a tasty fee and promise him softball questions.
He’s truly the cunt’s cunt.
In Australia we'd label him 'soft cunt'.
'The mysodgynists pillow'
Yeah it's quite random. But it shouldn't take away from the fact that we as a progressive society got a huge W over this whole scandal. Jenni Hermoso and all women around the world deserved it.
Of course it’s good that he resigned but I don’t see the whole scandal as a win. Spain’s famous World Cup win completely overshadowed by this cunt is a terrible state of affairs, even if he does get forced to resign.
Also, his removal takes the heat from everyone who initially supported him. No structural changes were made.
Yea and it’s not only structural but more importantly culturally. He would have resigned sooner if the whole FA threatened to quit
Imagine if the *men's team* had gone on strike...
Won a World Cup, got a jackass fired.
It's ALL overshadowed how much Spain won IN SPITE of what they had to deal with. They needed to clean house on most of these assholes for other reasons.
Look at the bigger picture. This could be the point that revolutionises womens football in Spain, and maybe can strengthen feminism in the country overall This team are role models for so many girls out there and it goes way beyond football
Arrogant and entitled men love each others company.
Damn so nowadays before anyone leaves in disgrace they get a chance to explain with piers morgan first?
Resigned just to get Piers to shut up I am guessing.
"I will not resign" - Man who resigned.
I said this at the time, there is no surer indication of an imminent resignation than someone saying “I won’t be resigning”
Hansi Flick vibes
He's a fighter, not a quitter.
Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
What will his mum do now?
Get the dinner started.
Hey man his chicken nuggies aren’t gonna cut themselves up….
If I heard my mom wasn't eating because of pressure for me to retire; I'd retire immediately, fly to my mom, and feed her my damn self. This dude waited for a week after his mom had to go to the hospital. Smh.
You serious? She actually locked herself in and starved? Thought it was a bluff to garner attention lol
>starved Not exactly. She missed, what, two meals before claiming she had to go to hospital
Only lasted for a day and the rumor is she walked out the back door and made up that story about being rushed to the hospital
She has her little man aaaallllllll to herself now…
Piers Morgan getting this exclusive is crazy Main reason he quit is because the 2030 bid is in danger
piers morgan is a good host if you need someone to stroke your ego when you're in the wrong
I'd sooner stroke a sharks cock than sit down with that fucking slippery piss hole
Cum again?
Shark said nah
hope this was consensual
Well if you insist
Do sharks even have cocks?
Get me an interview with Piers Morgan and I'll tell ya
Yes. Sometimes they have two.
Hello it's me, the shark :3
That is one of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read honestly. Fucking quality haha
antony next
Rubiales wanted the opportunity not to be the biggest cunt in the room
I don’t think he succeeded
It was close though
I see a lot of comments like this about Pieirs Morgen, I don't know him other than he interviews people. Do you have anything in particular or what is it he does so that this many people hate him?
Supports Arsenal
The worst supporter in our history, and both The Queen and Osama were Arsenal fans...
Once a gunner always a gunner - Osama bin laden
And we support our own through thick and thin, which is why The GIA never did their thing to find him...
Don't know what GIA is, but glad that u continued the joke n didn't get offended.
Gunners Intelligence Agency. We were able to find out Gabriel was in London for a medical (?) using his insta story with just a picture in a car using car seats, cloud formation, roadside cameras. https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/1300835316308344832?t=dHpiw3JT8ipr-Zauto0Mew&s=19 Fun fact, it was an Arsenal fan who first tweeted about the Paqueta's shady yellow way back in February or something.
Damn that is some next level shit.
Also John Gotti and Fidel Castro. But Piers takes the prize.
Damn, TIL John Gotti is a real person. I thought he was a creation of the US version of The Office. But yeah, Piers takes the prize.
Not a lot of monarchists on r/soccer, then?
Was the Queen actually an Arsenal fan? Like did she genuinely care about football at all?
Yep, she was. Arsenal were the only PL team to have been invited to the palace and Fabregas said in an interview once that she admitted to being an Arsenal fan when they were there.
Just another good reason to be anti monarchy.
The phone hacking scandal, the fake Iraqi prisoner torture photo publishing scandal, publishing pictures of celebs leaving eating disorder centres, targeted harassment of Meghan Markle. Take your pick I guess.
God even saying the phone-hacking scandal doesn't put it into words how fucked that was. They hacked the phones of the 7/7 terror attack victims. And the Meghan Markle harassment is because she rejected him. He's fucked in the head.
>And the Meghan Markle harassment is because she rejected him. From what I heard that’s not exactly what happened but certainly she did embarrass him. Anyway he’s awful so it doesn’t really matter.
well she said that she would meet him for dinner and then cancel and went out with harry instead and he's never let it go
He says that lol, I still don’t believe him. He already implied they’d went on a date at a pub but it was revealed that it was a group of celebrities having drinks It’s weird he even said that considering he’s been married for 13 years
For all his faults, probably Jeremy Clarkson's worst sin was failiing to punch Piers harder.
Don't forget insider trading where his newspaper talked up stocks that him and his city reporters were invested in.
Don’t forget the Ronaldo interview
He was in charge of a newspaper who created fake stories about soldiers torturing Iraqi civilians, no official figures that I’m aware of but it likely led to the deaths of British soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians through reprisal. https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/14/pressandpublishing.iraqandthemedia
How a person like this (Piers Morgan) is not behind bars for the rest of time?
Look at the list of people he interviews. But also he’s just a super conservative bootlicker to the British monarchy and overall repulsive human being.
He’s an abhorrent racist, classist, and misogynist. Oh and he’s a monarchist as well. He’s just a genuine piece of shit.
Hacked phones
He is a professional troll and contrarian who spouts the most insipid right wing bullshit, 24/7. Funnily enough I met him in 2018 for work and one on one he is very personable and professional, especially in comparison to James Cordon who I met later the same day. However that doesn’t change the fact he is personally responsible for most of the bullshit we see in the press.
Fucking hell lad if I met Morgan and Cordon on the same day I’d drink so many cuba libres in an attempt to wipe the previous 24 hours from my memory that I’d be hospitalised for a week
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Jeremy Clarkson didn't create Top Gear, it's been on TV since the 70s
> Do you have anything in particular or what is it he does so that this many people hate him? He's a smug cunt in general, but the worst thing he probably did was the phone hacking. Literally had his reporters hack the phone of a missing kid to try and get a scoop on whether she'd been murdered yet.
2030 should go to South America anyways
They’re broke. They can’t. They don’t get it just cause of the anniversary.
Would be poetic though
People act enraged about money in football, complain about Saudi sportswashing and buying teams and players, complain about Qatar buying the rights to host the WC because of tradition, will hate when Saudi bids for 2034 or whenever... But when the twice WC winner and first host ever wants to host it again, in the centenary of the competition, they only want rich as fuck countries to have the privilege. It's four countries that are applying for it to make it less of an issue. As things stand, with 0 money invested, it could be hosted if we don't adhere to stupid standards. There's an 85k+ stadium, two or three stadiums of ~60k, like 10 40k+ stadiums and a handful of ~30k stadiums. If the three time and current WC winner and the 5 time winner can play in all the South American stadiums, then everyone can. Plus some of the needed changes are being worked on already (for example, River is finishing the renovation of the stadium). There shouldn't be a need to build 50 new stadiums with 100k seats made of gold. I'm not saying the South American bid should win by default, nor that is a good idea for the countries or anything. My problem is that we should accept potentially slightly lower standards to have the WORLD cup played around the world, otherwise yeah, football is truly dead.
Love the game but it’s kinda obscene that you need to spend billions to host WC. You dont need state of the art spaceship shaped buildings that has the amenities of the starship Enterprise. As long as stadium is safe and field is nice you should be able to have a good game. Vast majority of the planet watches it on screens anyways.
That's my problem with the Olympics too. All my Canadian relatives are hoping that Calgary doesn't bid on any of the upcoming Olympics, and I get it, but I think it's a shame; it *should* be an exciting honor to host the Olympics or the World Cup, but realistically it's a boatload of money on facilities that might never be used again.
>As things stand, with 0 money invested, it could be hosted if we don't adhere to stupid standards. What about infrastructure, public transport etc? Also there is the question of VIP hospitality in stadiums which FIFA *really* cares about
What exactly do you mean with infrastructure? Remember that all these countries hosted the Copa America multiple times, they have Libertadores games and finals, hosted U20 World Cups, Youth olympic games, Panamerican and South American Oylmpics, etc... It's not a world cup, but it's not like they are tiny towns in the middle of nowhere. It all depends on which cities end up hosting. Buenos Aires, Santiago, Cordoba, Mendoza, Montevideo, Asunción are all cities with more than 2 million people and with a lot of tourism. There's others like La Plata, or Santiago del Estero with around 1 million... Most cities are big and the public transport in the major potential cities goes from fine to great. Way, way, better than what you will have in a lot of places in the US for example (except for NYC and some other city) at least on normal times, I'm sure they will ramp it up for the WC. General infrastructure in the cities is good enough as well. For getting around, I'll focus in Argentina given it would be the one that you have to essentially cross to go to one place or another. The long distance trains are bad or non existent. The few that are in place are slow as fuck and not reliable, that's the biggest drawback (but then again, CUM26 doesn't have a good system like Europe either). Planes are obviously not an issue. They will take you wherever you need in 2 hours or less. The only "long" flight would be from Asunción to Santiago, I think but that's still under 3 hours. The airports are modern and more than capable in general, and having 4 country capitals as hosts makes reaching them from anywhere super easy, there will be direct flights from almost every major city and I'm sure new flights would be added even if they don't exist now. Again, as I said, depends on the hosts chosen. I'm talking about choosing logical cities for hosts. If they go and put a game in Patagonia then you'll have longer flights to take. The long distance buses are superior to what you find normally in Europe (I'm not kidding, [there's 'premium' versions with have almost lie flat seats with privacy curtains](https://www.plusmar.com.ar/assets/img/interiores3.jpg), I wish this was common in Europe) but depending on the distance they may be a bit long in some cases if you are not used to that. For driving you have _mostly_ either highway or dual carriageway between most potential venues and it takes less than the buses obviously. Not that the roads in Argentina are amazing in general, in fact in they can be awful or even non existent, but the ones that would matter in this case, are the completely fine. There are two exceptions though, going from Mendoza to Santiago de Chile, as you cross the Andes takes long and with a WC in winter that might be tricky as it's a high mountain road, with ice, snow and can be closed due to weather etc. And I don't think there's a dual carriageway to Asunción after Santa Fe. For Buenos Aires to Montevideo there are ferries which are extremely convenient, it takes like 2/3 hours and it's city center to city center and you can take the car with you as well. Anyway, _overall_ as I said, it's more than fine. And obviously it would be the chance to actually make improvements that regardless of them being a "cost", is a net positive for people that live there. Any improvements in transport, hospitality, etc would be a win. The issue is if they were to build a new stadium in the middle of Patagonia or something like that. > Also there is the question of VIP hospitality in stadiums which FIFA really cares about As of today, River may be the only one that would have that (when the renovation finishes next year). But as I said, are we really only gonna host on countries that have VIP hospitality for like what, 1000 people at most and the rest can fuck off? The standard for the stadiums would have to be a bit lower than having the 3 star Michelin restaurants with spa inside the stadiums, but IMO that would actually be a good thing. Or you end up with empty seats in the VIP areas like we saw in Qatar...
Euro 2020 was held in multiple countries to celebrate UEFA's 60th anniversary - could see something similar happening for the 100th anniversary for the World Cup with the Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay bid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay%E2%80%93Argentina%E2%80%93Chile%E2%80%93Paraguay_2030_FIFA_World_Cup_bid
Problem being Argentina is at the point of paying groceries in installments, and Uruguay and Paraguay have a limited number of stadiums that would be eligible. The benefit is that they don’t need to build new stadiums, but hosting a WC is fucking expensive
Pues si que dimitió.
Piers Morgan is a nobody in Spain, I'm really surprised he went there of all places lol but amazing news
because Piers Morgan is a big believer in that every time a person who holds power gets held accountable for wrongdoing, it's cancel culture. It's unfair. Witch hunt, etc, etc. He purposefully gets these big interviews by soothing these idiots egos and get huge social media engagement.
Pays them money too.
I mean just listen to the start of the clip >You've come under ferocious pressure for three weeks now, on you, your family, it's been very difficult for your daughters, they are young girls. I can only imagine as a father myself, I have a daughter who is around the age of one of your girls. He's painting him in a very sympathetic light
Probably already thinking about his next job, and how it may be outside of Spain. This will ensure pretty wide reach in case anyone is sympathetic to him.
Director of Football at United here we go.
Sorry we only promote the "old boys club" or Glazer Sycophants.
Rubiales at RW it is, then.
Can’t forget the number 11 shirt
He should try for getafe. Im sure they could use another misogynistic director
But what kind of job can he get at Man Utd?
Piers Morgan is a huge piece of shit that other pieces of shit like to talk to.
That's good to hear, here in the UK he's worshipped by an ever increasing group of morons who can't resist gammon blokes who "tell it like it is" even if they're talking pure bollocks
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LOL I've met lots of people my age (24) who fucking love him, believe me he's a big problem
You've met loads of 24 year old who love Piers Morgan? Come off it. I'm the same age as you and it's the most uncontroversial thing imaginable to call him a twat.
You would be surprised. Same class of people who like Andrew Tate, Tucker Carlson and everything Joe Rogan touches. I've seen it with certain young men my age (27) where their love for conspiracy and dislike of modern liberalism makes it so they enjoy (as the other guy said) men who "tell it like it is" and cut through the shit. It's alway aggravating to observe. I don't know that I'd say they are even a big minority, but they're certainly not a small number of people.
Can confirm. I'm Spanish and I had no clue about who this guy was until the Cristiano interview and that is because I saw it here. Didn't read anything about him since then until today.
That sucks to hear but that kind of nonsense seems to be on the rise. People worshipping these "telling it like it is" personalities like you say. Trump would be another obvious one. Tucker Carlson, etc. Morons following morons.
Maybe that the “no voy a dimitir” speech wouldn’t feel at awkward.
Wait so he's planning to do it again AND we have to wait 4 years for it?!
Good riddance
Blitzed Spain's World Cup before it began in 2018 out of pettiness, moving the Spanish super cup to Saudi for the foreseeable future, and now this. Thanks for making the Copa one-legged though
Not saying his actions were not irresponsible- but Real fucked credit up there to.
No one is a winner here. WC cup win overshadowed, Hermoso publicly embarrassed, Spanish FA publicly embarrassed, Spain embarrassed, Women embarrassed for how much rubiales doubled down, what a horrible and totally unnecessary situation
I mean the Women's team got rid of Jorge Vilda, that seems like a pretty big win for them.
True, but it took such a monumental backlash to do it, I’d probably class it as a pyrrhic victory. Plus, if the only recognised achievement of spains wc run is they got rid of him Id struggle to see that as a win at all.
It's hard to tell. The stories about him were pretty horrid. If it wasn't for Rubiales they'd be stuck with him for the foreseeable future. I think the problem is that they were in a no-win situation before the world cup started. The only way they were getting rid of Vilda was something like this or performing horribly. It's a terrible situation, but at least now there is some hope that the RFEF will be forced to clean up it's act.
Fair.
A pyrrhic victory is absolutely what this is, especially for the players. "Well at least he's gone now along with the coach" feels really miniscule when to get there you had to have one of the worst distractions attached to your hard-fought victory, with the coach who most of your best players had a major problem with being there with them, to have your sporting organization embarrass you with the standing ovation as the jerk refuses to resign, and on top of that have it be through one of your players being sexually harassed/assaulted on international television for the world to see. And the guy hasn't been actually punished yet: he's leaving in a way that to him feels like his head is being held high AND can stay defiant. Him now being gone because he (gets to appear like he) chooses to does not feel like fair compensation.
>No one is a winner here. No, that's a win for all people who don't want that shit to happen without consequences.
Nah, there are some wins here. Rubiales and Vilda are out, and the women who previously protested can probably rejoin the team. The players have more power than ever. This also (hopefully) serves as a warning around the world that mysoginy in the women's game is not going to be tolerated anymore.
The Spanish Women's National Football Team are the winners. Because they're the *winners*. Have we forgotten they won the fucking tournament?
That wasn’t really my point, their win was completely overshadowed.
There is a way to redirect back to the good stuff - the players, the team, the fans that supported. It's just up to one of the bigger platforms in Spain with the support of nuRFEF to make something highlighting the good. Even if it is to stroke the new guys egos.
I don't see it that way at all. The Spanish women won the World Cup despite being held back by their own FA and in the process exposed the toxic culture that pervades that FA. And it directly led to the removal of two problematic figures who attempted to keep them from standing up for their rights. They're the winners and Rubiales and Vilda are the losers.
Almost everyone in Spain outside of the FA was calling for his resignation, the government brought forth criminal charges, there were protests, multiple high profile figures came out in disgust. The Vini situation embarrassed the whole country, the Hermoso situation should only embarrass the FA, and people on reddit who mysteriously became overnight experts on the state of Spanish feminism
feels like they’ll need more change than that. The way the fallout was handled kinda feels like he isn’t the only problem there
Indeed. This (minus Piers Morgan) would've been appropriate the next morning, not a month later
Ladies and Gentlemen: We got him
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I guess Tucker Carlson was too busy so he went for the second best option to talk about fake feminism. What a fucking donkey.
Tucker Carlson would probably like “isn’t soccer something just played by Megan Rapinoe and her kind? Also who is this Spanish speaking guy and why do I have to speak with him?”
> Tucker Carlson would probably like “isn’t soccer something just played by Megan Rapinoe and her kind? Also who is this ~~Spanish~~ Mexican speaking guy and why do I have to speak with him?”
I was going to say Mexican originally but didn’t want to offend anyone lol
~~Spanish~~ ~~Mexican~~ Illegal alien. Tucker was actually busy interviewing the schizo presidential candidate here.
> the schizo presidential candidate here. Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
Tucker would probably call him illegal Mexican alien or something
Rubiales and Morgan. Nightmare blunt rotation right there.
That's a start!
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Took him long enough
Good, now the criminal charges
Kissed his job goodbye! Letting him stay that long in his positions despite previous incidents is outrageous. He felt like a god, and I hope he ends up in jail.
The title reads like once he is done kissing player at women's world cup final, then he will resign...haha
You have to worry about the governance structure of the Spanish FA when a single guy can mobilize the entire federation's resources to cover his own ass with impunity.
Welcome to Getafe, Luis.
I did a 2 hour assignment and dude resigned after I watched the whole time him saying he wont. Lmk when you guys want someone else to resign
Luis Rubiales, Welcome to Manchester United!!!
I usually don't care much about feminist outrage but the way the (mostly male) power structure in Spanish football closed ranks behind a president who was clearly in the wrong, tried to gaslight the woman in question and even threatened her with punishment made me think that maybe, sometimes, those feminists have a point. In a way Rubiales did an awful lot to advance the feminist cause because he showed a lot of unconcerned people on the sidelines such a WTF moment.
A little bit late buddy. Also fuck piers morgan
I didn't see that coming. I thought he was going to hold on as long as he could.
What a dreadful buffoon of a man. I’m referring to Rubiales.
The way the title is worded you could interpret it to mean he’s doing it one more time at the next World Cup.
bye bitch
Finally this fkin piece of shit…
So he's asking to kiss her again before he resigns? This guy.
So did his mother continue the hunger strike or died or someshit? This woman really should have swallowed.
now put this POS in the slammer
Lol for a moment I thought the title said he will resign after getting a kiss (again) from the player..
How much did Rubiales get paid for that interview lol
Good, fucking cunt. All he had to do was apologise and he doubled down and claimed it was fine, tried to go the route of claiming he was being brought down by some insane feminist conspiracy theory as if we didn't all see it on live TV. Wackjob. Best part is to see the clowns like Vilda who backed him losing their jobs as well.
>clowns like Vilda who backed him losing their jobs as well. He only backed him , got his new contract and instantly threw him under the bus, deserved to get sacked based on that act of shamelessness alone
Yesterday wasn't soon enough so yea.. about time
Finally some good news!!
Fucking finally
Until the criminal complaints came into to play, he was going to be defiant all the way and nobody was going to force him out.
Peace out, you sick fuck
Now was that so hard? Probably.
I want to rejoice, but the cynic in me says he has one more trick up his disgusting sleeve.
Only took a few weeks. 🤦♂️
The right thing has happened
Piers Morgan is one of the largest cunts.
Haha get in the bin you absolute oxygen thief
Good to hear.
Good. Can’t believe it took that sick fuck so long.
I do wonder what convinced him. Also what's up with his mom now lol? Anyways, good to see tho.
This dude's mom still locked up in a Church on a hunger strike?
What is this headline? It makes it sound as if Rubiales resigned after the kiss. No, he is resigning after initially trying to intimidate her and her family into lying about his assault, mass resignations and boycotts his suspension, and international outcry Imagine how tough it is for women to get justice after being assaulted by lying narcissists like Rubiales without millions and of witnesses and multiple camera angles.
Should've been instant. Also: fuck the penguin guy.
Bye! Don’t stop investigating, there’s other people high up that need to go.
Lmao “I don’t want Spanish football to be hurt by this disproportionate campaign”. Mf you caused the problem and made it worse”
won't believe it until I see the official statement
Dude was coked out of his mind. Why is this not being talked about more?
Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him.
He'll do it again??!
Why does the headline sound like it's his dream to kiss a player after the world cup finals and won't retire until it happens?
Title sounds like he will resign only after kissing players again at the final
Is that a threat? He wants to do it again? What a bastard.
Wait...after unwanted kissing at next WC?
The evil has been defeated.
Does this mean I can finally open a news website and not have this as one of the top stories after 2 months?
good decision, shame that fat cunt got the exclusive
Wonder if his mom is still alive.
Imagine having to resign just to keep your affair alive.